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«Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.»
Author: Cecil Beaton
(Fashion designer, Photographer)
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against, assert, asserted, asserts, commonplace, commonplaces, creatures, Dare to Be Different, daring, different, imaginative, impractical, integrity, in ordinary, ordinary, play, purpose, slaves, slaving, The Creatures, the play, vision
«A house divided against itself cannot stand.»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
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against, divided, divided up, house, housed, housing, In Your House, Itself, Our House, stand
«If there is sin against life, it consists? in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
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against, consists, elude, eluded, eludes, eluding, grandeur, hoping, implacable, sin, This Life
«If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.»
Author: Dale Carnegie
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against, doing, done, Getting Things Done, has-been, hold, impossibilities, seeming, The Best, The Thing, to get
«If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, then ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.»
«All war must be just the killing of strangers against whom you feel no personal animosity; strangers whom, in other circumstances, you would help if you found them in trouble, and who would help you if you needed it»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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against, animosities, animosity, as needed, circumstances, feel, Feel the Need, found, founds, help, help out, in trouble, just, Just War, killing, killings, must, musts, needed, no., no, On War, other, personal, Strangers, Them, The Killing, The War of the, trouble, under the circumstances, war, warring, WHO, would